Why does the State Government not assume responsibility for its sustained administrative failures? Why must it forever engage in passing the blame on to the Opposition to absolve itself of all sins whatsoever? Is this refusal to accept the reality of its terrible misgovernance the best way to win the future confidence of the electorate? Better to dispel these illusions about mass gullibility and own up before the people its failure to deliver good governance wherever such lapses have taken place. Such explicit honesty will win the hearts of the people and they will repose faith as yet on this malfunctioning government that has lost its moorings and its hold on the steering of the state. After all, Bengalis do not easily alter trust in the ruling dispensation as is evident from their long support of, first, the Congress, then the CPI(M) led Left Front, and, now, for two terms till date, the TMC. Hence, the present government's puerile insistence that all of the law and order failure in the state in so many spheres is entirely the handiwork of the BJP will be difficult to digest for most people and could increasingly alienate the TMC from the masses. And this in turn could determine the possible verdict of the people in the 2021 State Legislature elections.
Here it will be expedient for the TMC leadership to democratise the party from its current dictatorial set-up and lend a sympathetic ear to what the rank and file of the party have to say.
The days of dictatorship are fast disappearing in the wake of technological advancement, and with public participation in the polity increasing consequent on information revolution, it is but natural that autocracy with all its inherent inefficiency will spell the doom of the ruling party. Prudence, therefore, calls for a review and reconstruction of the party set-up followed by laying abreast before the people of all that this government in truth has to account itself for. Only then will this single-command party survive the challenges of the times and live to see a brighter morrow. Else, its fate will exactly be the same as all other dictatorial parties have suffered in the past whose most glaring instance in India is that of the Indian National Congress.
Hope sanity will prevail and good sense steer the wheels of the ruling dispensation on to a track that does not lead unto destruction. May God bless all !
Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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